The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Ara fire alarm in Birmingham, Ala, the hook
and ladder truck was driven out, and after going
around several blocks the driver returned to the
station house and asked Treasurer Evans where
the fire was
A FIGURING mill in Oregon pays an adjacent
saw mill $50 a day for its sawdust which 1t uses
for fuel in its big furnaces. Their fuel cost
them SlCO a day before they found that they
could burn what most Western saw mILs Lnro"
away.
AT a fancy dress ball in Paris the great sue
cess of the evening was accorded to group OF
''earthquakers," a party OF young men who
were attred in overcoats, crush hats and night
gowns. while each of them carried black
leather handbag The realism anu appropriate
ness of the disguise called forth much laughter
and applause.
As HENRY TAYLOR night Waterman in Lou
isve tobacco warehouse, was making his
rounds the other night, big coon jumped from
a rafter upon his head and buried his teeth and
claws in his face and neck. Taylor couldn pull
the animal off. try as he might and so he ran
from the warehouse until he met policeman,
who shot the animal twice before he released
his hold. No one knows where the coon came
from.
CAPT. JOHNSON SIDES, an intelligent Piute In
dian, says that the idea prevalent among the
whites that the Piutes are gradually diminishing
in numbers is Incorrect. The census returns or
1880 show that there were at that time only
counted, and that there were fully 5000 He es-
Inmates the present number of the tribe at fuly
5000, and probably $500
FRANKLIN d. SMITH, of Portland, Ore, ne
gro, who served as a soldier during the war, has
been blackmailed by the Grand Army men out
there and, in letter of remonstrance, says: Il
fought side by side with white men then, sat
side by side with them around our camp fres
then, and color was not thought of. Our cOun-
try was our thought. was white enough then
to offer my life for the salvation of my country,
and I am not man enough to belong to Garfield
Post No. 3, Grand Army of the Republic"
THE London Court Journal has this story Of
the Queen: in one of the great picture gal
leres at Windsor Castle are several precious
caskets, among other exquisite objects de rertu,
The Queen entered one day with a small book
in her hand, and asked the keeper of these
treasures which was the most rare and valuable
of all the baskets. He showed her one made or
pure rock crystal, ornamented with gold and
enamel. In this casket the Queen placed the
small boOk-Gen. GOrdon'S pocket bible. an
notated and marked by his own hand, and in
this precious caslet win remain this most pre-
cious relic of one of EnSllnd's greatest heroes. -
AN Essex man has the biggest appetite in all
Massachusetts, if not in the United States. He
eats vast quantities of food but all to no pur-
pose, for he is growing weaker and thinner.
Doctors have tried in vain to cure him, and once,
at the advice of one of them, he abstained for
hfty-two hours from eating anything. But the
suffering during that period was most intense,
and finding he could stand it no longer he started
in aud ate continuously for twenty-seven
minutes as fast as he could bolt down the food.
Then he walked out into the yard, and still feel
ing hungry, Immediately re-entered the house
and repeated the operation of a few moments
before At the end of the second meal he was
still hungry, but was afraid to eat any more.
THE Boston Transcript tells of rich Boston
man who had moved out of town and located
in little village community where the ways of
life had always been rather primitive and the
expenditure small. One day the assessors of
the town came to him, rather fearfully. They
dldn want to tax MIN out OF the town, and yet
they proposed to have him bear his share of the
taxation. 'Ah, gentlemen, %" said he, after they
had timidly pumped him little as to the
amount OF bis property, what is the amount OF
money you have to raise here by taxation?''
Twelve thousand dollars this year, sir "
Twelve thousand dollars, Ell? Well, send the
bill to me and I'll pay the whole of it," Not a
single ructic in the place paid any taxes that
year and the Boston man got off good deal
cheaper than he had for some years.
Mr. GIADsToNE's VISIT to Buffalo Bits "wild
West" exhibition is the best boom" that show
has yet had Lord Ronald Cover is credited
this expedition to the wilds of Earls Court. His
cautious reference to the exhibition as com
mercial speculation does not conciliate English
men, who think his panygeric on America over
strained. His speech remarks the Times,
would have been in place as a reply to great
national embassy sent over to pay him respect
and receive compliments in return" Americans
may be permitted to think its cordiality not out
of place anywhere. The Indian interviews be-
came the occasion of Tory wit Red Shirt
and hIIbita Tollari &c the title IIndar which
evening paper discusses them. Another heads
a long article ''Great White Chief" and treats
him as much occupied with the cowboys and
Buffalo Bill.
IT is related of Gen. Manteuffel, the late Ger
man Military Governor of Alsace, who hated all
that was French, that he once at public dinner
engaged in a dispute with French diplomat
who maintained the superiority of the French
workmen over the artisans of all other nations
"A thing so ugly does not exist that the skill
and genius of a Frenchman cannot make of it a
thing of beauty" he said Angered by the con-
tradiction, the old soldier pulled hair from his
briStly gray moustache, and, handing it to the
Frenchman, said CURLY, Let him make thing
Of beauty out of that, then, and prove your
claim The Frenchman took the hair and sent
it in a letter to a well known Partisan jeweler
with a statement of the case and an appeal to
his patriotic pride, giving him no limit of ex-
pense i'll executing his order. week later the
mail from Paris brought neat little box for
the General. In it was handsome scarf pin
made like a Prussian eagle, that held in it's
talons stiff gray bristle, from either end of
which dangled tiny golden ball. One was in
scribed Alsace, the other Lorraine and on the
eagles perch were the words, You hold them
but by hair"
WILLIS IsAAcs of West Chester, N. Y, has an
ordinary bottle in which he has displayed some
surprising results Of patient labor and ingenuity
An inspection shows the bottle to contain
cross erect that reaches to the neck of the bot
tie, and the cross piece is about as long as the
size of the bottle will admit of. ladder com
plete and of symmetrical proportions is in posi-
tion reaching from the bottom of the bottle to
aimed diagonally across the back of the cross,
is pinned fast to it by little staple. At one
side of the cross stands miniature ship full
rugged on the other side boat with oars set in it's
side rests on pedestal. A wooden AK, with edge
set into chopping block, and q maui standing
upright at its side complete the contents of the
bottle. These articles were put in place piece
by piece and secured in their various positions
by Nlr. Isaacs, although the neck of the bottle
viii but little more than allow of the passage of
some OF the larger pieces endwiSe. He put them
there one piece at time and secured them in
place, drove the pins and other fastening de-
vices with no other implements than small
vine with the end tattened.
A FURTHER important advance has Just been
made in utilizing hydro carbons for steam rails
ing purposes on board ships. A legitimate OBJ
lection to the adoption of liquid fuel at sea
under certain circumstances has been that the
use Of steam for the diffusion of the oil in the
fresh water from the boilers. AS this loss has
TO be made good by salt water on long OCEAN